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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Douglass's first master oversee?
(a) Most of the overseers.
(b) All of the overseers.
(c) Three of the overseers.
(d) Two of the overseers.

2. What does Frederick Douglass say disgusts him in Chapter 1?
(a) Slaves being removed from their families.
(b) Slaveholders forcing themselves on slave women, then having children with them.
(c) The murder of innocent people.
(d) Slaves being sold in cities.

3. What did Wendell Phillips do for a living?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was a soldier.
(c) He was a publisher.
(d) He was a writer.

4. What is Douglass' concerned about in Chapter 1?
(a) His mom.
(b) Not having enough food.
(c) Being beaten.
(d) His age.

5. In what city in Massachusetts did Garrison hear the speech about slavery that is described in the Preface?
(a) Boston.
(b) Nantucket.
(c) Springfield.
(d) Plymouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Douglass focus on describing in Chapter 3?

2. Whose offices and printing presses were destroyed in the narrative of the second Preface?

3. In what state was Frederick Douglass born?

4. How long was the food that is given to the adult slaves supposed to last?

5. What best defines what "mulatto" means?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

2. What is the importance of the songs of the slaves in Chapter 2?

3. How is Garrison's Preface different than other prefaces?

4. How does Douglass compare slaves to animals in Chapter 3?

5. How does Douglass describe the treatment of mulatto slaves in Chapter 1?

6. Why does Garrison make Douglass seem to be so important to the abolitionist movement?

7. What common practice upsets Douglass, according to his narrative in Chapter 1?

8. Why is Douglass so concerned about his age in Chapter 1?

9. In the Preface, how does Garrison describe Douglass?

10. What was the situation surrounding Demby's death?

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